Let’s Laugh At The Vikings New Stadium

July 22, 2008
posted under: Vikings suck

Let’s Laugh At The Vikings New Stadium

The Minnesota Vikings have been begging and pleading that state for years to build them a new stadium to replace the Humpy Dumpty Dome in Minneapolis, but those tight-fisted Minnesotans just won’t give them a penny. (Hundreds of millions so billionaire Carl Pohlad can have a new baseball stadium? Sure thing! New football stadium? Go jump in a lake!)

Zygi Wilf’s latest plan for a stadium was unveiled last week, a design by Ellerbe Becket for a “reconstruction” of the Metrodome.

Ugly new Vikings stadium

I’m not sure how those Vikings fans are reacting, but they can’t seriously call that thing a football stadium. It looks more like a space pod or a giant blob of protoplasm. Rather than sports, I think it’s a biosphere where hazardous experiments are carried out.

I just don’t get the current trend in stadium design that favors big, block structures over something that looks like a stadium. The Colts are moving into a huge barn in Indianapolis this season, and the Texans play in some kind of tomb that looks more like a blimp hanger than anything else.

Thank the stars Bob Harlan didn’t try to “reconstruct” hallowed Lambeau Field into one of these monstrosities.

Dave Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm

It looks like Tupperware.

U-G-L-Y, It Aint Got No Alibi | Cheesehead TV Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm

[...] Brats and Beer Guy opines: I’m not sure how those Vikings fans are reacting, but they can’t seriously call that thing a football stadium. It looks more like a space pod or a giant blob of protoplasm. Rather than sports, I think it’s a biosphere where hazardous experiments are carried out. [...]

EK Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Dick,
You should not laugh too loudly before you learn that the history of the Lambeau remodel was done by none other than Ellerbe Becket the MN headquartered firm that is re-designing the metrodome. Get with it and respect the firm Dick.